Ice and the Sky

2015

France

1h 29min

U

Directed by: Luc Jacquet

Written by: Luc Jacquet

Cast: Claude Lorius, Michel Papineschi, Jacques-Yves Cousteau

UK release: 11 December 2015

Director Jacquet (March of the Penguins) returns to icy climes for this documentary about glaciologist Claude Lorius and the painstaking research he has done about climate change. Beautiful cinematography in the service of a concise, alarming and all-too-urgent summary of the state of our environment.

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Glaciologist Claude Lorius is the subject of this doc from Oscar-winner Luc Jacquet

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